Dynamics of supercontinuum generation in argon-filled Kagome-structured hollow-core photonic crystal fiber

MENG Fan-Chao; LIU Bo-Wen; WANG Si-Jia; LIU Jun-Ku; LI Yan-Feng; WANG Qing-Yue; HU Ming-Lie

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.02.018

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